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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,489, dated August 19, 1902.

Application filed March 13, 1900. Serial No. 8,523 (No model.)

have invented certain new and useful Innprovements in Apparatus for Elevating or Conveying and Transferring Ice and for other Purposes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My present invention has for its objects to improve the construction and simplify the operation of ice elevating and transmitting or transferring machinery, to the end that the same may be operated with great rapidity and to a large extent automatically, dispensing with much expensive labor.

A further object of my invention is to provide a mechanism suitable for storing the ice into or through the top or upper portion of the storage-chamber of the ice-house, so as to prevent the escape of cold air therefrom or the entrance of warm air. I

Another object is to provide an improved means for driving two cooperating receiving and discharging elevators.

' My invention consists in the features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter described and pointed out.

In order to make the invention more clearly understood, I have shown in the accompanying drawings means forcarrying the same into practical effect without limiting my improvements in their useful applications to the particular constructions which for the sake of illustration I have delineated.

In said drawings, Figure l is an elevation, partly in section, of so much of an ice conveying or elevating and transferring apparatus embodying my inventionas is necessary for an understanding of the latter. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same. Fig. is a plan view showing a somewhat different relative arrangement of the elevators or conveyers' also embodying my invention. Fig.3 is a transverse sectional view of one of the carriers. Fig. I is an end elevation showing an: other form of elevating and transferring apparatus also embodying my invention. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the same.

Referring to the drawings and to the particular forms of my invention therein shown, it will be understood that the conveying or elevating means may be of any desired or convenient length vertically or in a direction inclined to the vertical, as may be rendered necessary by the height of the storage-chamber and the mode of depositing the ice therein.

S indicates the storage-chamber, and contiguous to the same is the so-called freezingroom F. The room F may be considered as typical of any room or space outside of the storage-chamber where the ice is produced or deposited preliminary to the storing operation. The said rooms are shown as separated by the wall or partition W. Referring to Fig. 1, it will be understood that I have shown only the upper portions of the receiving elevator or conveyor R in the chamber F and the corresponding portion of the discharging elevator or conveyer D within the storage-chamber S. While these devices maybe of any suitable character, I have illustrated a simple and convenient form of elevator comprising endless chains 1, running upon pulleys 2 at their upper ends, which pulleys are mounted upon a horizontal shaft 3. This shaft may be carried by anysuitable frame, a portion of which is shown at l, and the elevator may be actuated through the shaft 3 or bya similar powershaft and pulleys (not shown) at the lower ends of the elevators. The elevators are provided with carriers 0, preferably comprising hooks 5, secured to a transverse bar (3, suitably journaled at the ends in or on the chains 1. It will be understood that as the carriers 0 ascend the hooks 5 will hang in a vertical or inclined position and so remain as the carrierpasses over the shaft 3 at the upper end of the elevator. The two elevators R and D are or may be of similar construction and are so illustrated. The arrows indicate the directions of movement of the parts.

' At the lower end of the receiving-elevator R the ice is loaded in blocks by hand or automatically into the carriers 0. In Figswi and 5 there is shown at 7 a suitable platform for this purpose, along which the ice may he slid until it comes in line with the hooks 50f the ascending carriers. From, this point the ice blocks or cakes are elevated successively by the carriers and pass around the upper end of the elevator R, as shown at I in Fig. 1. At or near the upper end of the elevator or at any desired heights the partition W is provided with one or-more openings 5 s, leading from the freezing to the storage room, which openings may be normally closed by swinging doors 8, adapted to be opened by the endwise pressure of the ice-cake.

9 is a movable or adjustable platform or discharging device adapted to be arranged in line with the opening 8 or 3, through which the ice is to be delivered, and to permit the passage of the hooks 5, but to arrest and sustain the cake of ice carried by said hooks. Said discharging device 9 is inclined on its upper surface sufficiently to cause the cake of ice to slide toward the opening 5 when deposited by the carriers and to open the door 8 and passinto the storage-chamber, as shown at I where it is arrested in position to be taken up by a carrier of the discharging-elevator D. In Fig. 1 the discharging device 9 is shown as arranged in line with the opening while in dotted lines at 9 is indicated the position of such device when it is desired to store the ice through the opening 8.

Within the storage-chamber in line with the opening .9 is arranged a guide or receiver 10, adapted to conduct the ice cake from the opening into line with the ascending carriers of the discharging-elevator and there arrest and hold it until taken up by one of said carriers. The receiver 10 is constructed so as, while holding the ice, to permit the free passage of the hooks 5 of the carriers, and to this end consists, preferably, (as do also the various loading or discharging devices or platforms herein described,) of fingers 11 on a suitable bar or support 12. The receiver 10 may be placed in line with that opening through which the ice is to be stored. In Fig. 1 it is shown as adjusted in line with the opening 5; but it may be placed opposite the opening 8, as indicated in dotted lines and as shown in Fig. 4. The platforms or receivers 9 and 10 may be supported upon strips or brackets (indicated at suitably supported bysomestationarypartof thestructure. The platforms may merely rest upon these supports and may be removed therefrom and placed in different positions, as occasion may require. The receiver 10 comprises a suitable stop 13, by which the movement of the ice cake is arrested when it comes in line with the ascending carriers of the elevator D. From said receiver the cakes of ice are successively taken and carried around the upper end of the discharging-elevator D, as indicated at 13 in Fig. 1, from which point they are carried down to a second discharging device 14, Fig. 2, situated at any desired point within the storage-chamber. The discharging device 14 may be of the same general construction as that shown at 9 and is preferably inclined to cause the ice cakes to slide away by gravity as soon as they are deposited by the carriers. An adjustable or shiftable chute or slideway C may lead from the discharging device 14 to any desiredfpart of the storagechamber where the ice is to be deposited.

It will be observed that the ascending and descending legs of the elevator are arranged to move in a plane which is substantially parallel with the wall W, which makes it possible to arrange the elevator very close to the wall and the openings therein through which the material carried by the elevators is to be passed, and also that the load-transferring means or devices are adapted and arranged to move the load in a direction transverse to the said plane in which the elevator moves and to the direction in which the load is carried when supported by the elevator, and because of this construction it is possible to deliver the load at difierent points between the ends of the elevator-that is, between the turning pulleys or wheels of the elevatorand also to transfer the load from the elevator at points very close to the openings in the wall.

In Fig. 3 I have shown an arrangement of the receiving and discharging elevators in line with each other. The shaft 3 of each elevator is provided with a bevel gear-wheel 15, which wheels engage an intermediate bevelwheel 16. It will be observed from this arrangement and gearing that the shafts 3 of the two elevators are caused to turn in opposite directions and that power may be applied at either end of either elevator or to the wheel 16 to properly drive both elevators. In this construction the loading-platform '7 of the elevator R will be located at the inner sides of the chains 1 and the discharging device'9 at the outer sides of said chains. The various receiving or discharging platforms may be provided wherever necessary with guidingrails 17 to keep the ice cakes in proper line and prevent their lateral movement on said platform.

It will be understood that in practice the loaded carrier 0 willswin g inward between the chains 1, and I employ suitable guides wherever necessary to insure that the carrier shall be held in proper position to deposit and leave the ice cake on the discharging device clear of the elevator-chains, so that it may slide away longitudinally past said chains, as already described. I also employ such guides to hold the carriers in proper position parallel with the chains as they receive their loads. I have shown the preferred arrangement of such guides on a larger scale in Fig. 4..

18 is the guide at the lower end of the receiving-elevator R, extending past the loading-platform 7 and near and parallel, orsubstantially so, to the chains 1. This guide serves to bring the carriers 0 out from their normally hanging positions between the chains and into line with the loading device. 19 is an incline at the lower part of the guide to facilitate the engaging and straightening of the carriers. This guide is suitably supported, as from the elevator-frame 20, and may extend for the whole height of the elewith the ascending leg of the discharging-elevator D, as seen in Fig. 4. The descending carriers are also similarly controlled by guides 23.

24: indicates a guard to keep the carrierhooks clear of the shaft 25 at the lower end of the elevator, on which shaft are mounted the wheels 26 of the elevator-chains 1.

In this form of my invention I have shown a new and in some respects superior means for driving the elevators, whereby the connecting-shaft 3 at the upper ends of the elevators is dispensed with to allow the carriers 0 to swing freely across the space between the wheels 2. In this construction the inner wheels 2 are fixed on the ends of shafts 27, and the latter extend, preferably, from the frame 20 of one elevator through the wall V to the frame of the other elevator and are supported on and connect said frames. Each shaft 27 carries a driving gear-wheel 28. The outer wheel 2 of each elevator is mounted on a shaft 29 in line with its corresponding shaft 27, and on the shaft 29 is fixed a driving-gear 30 of the same pitch as the gears 28. 31 is a counter-shaft extending through the wall W past the wheels 28 28 3O 30 and provided with four pinions 32, engaging said wheels, respectively. By this means the two separate chainwheels 2 of each elevator are driven at the same speed and the two elevators so connected that both may be driven together'from a suitable source of powerfor instance, from either of the shafts 29.

That I claim is- 1. The herein-described elevating or conveying and transferring apparatus comprising a receiving-elevator, a delivering-elevator and means in a position intermediate between the ends of the receiving-elevator for transferring the load from the former to the latter.

2. The herein-described elevating or conveying and transferring apparatus comprisin g areceiving-elevator, a delivering-elevator and means for transferring the load from the former elevator to the latter, such means hein g adjustable relative to both said elevators, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of an endless elevator or carrier, a second endless elevator or carrier, and means for transferring theload from the descending leg of the first elevator to the ascending leg of the second elevator, said transferring means being adjustable relative to both said elevators.

4:. The combination with the storage-chamber S havingawali provided with a contracted opening, an elevator or carrier without said wall, a second elevator or carrier on the in side'of said wall, and means for transferring the load from the first elevator through said opening to the second elevator, in a direction substantially transverse to that which is imparted to the load by the first elevator.

5. The combination with the storage-chamber S,having a wall provided with a contracted opening, an endless elevator or carrier without said wall, aseeond endless elevatoror carrier on the inside of the said wall, and means for transferring the load from the first elevator through said opening to the second elevator, in a direction substantially transverse to that imparted to the load by the first elevator.

6. The combination of the receiving elevator or carrier, an automatic discharging device by which the load is taken from said elevator, a second elevator or carrier, a receiver adapted to support the load and arranged between the ends of the second elevator or carrier and from which the latter is adapted to take the load, and means for transferring the load from said discharging device to said receiver.

7. The combination of an endless receivingelevator, an automatic discharging device arranged between the ends of said elevator by which the load is taken from said elevator, a second endless elevator, a receiver from which the latter is adapted to take the load, and

means for transferring the load from said discharging device to said receiver.

8. The combination with the storage-chamber S having a wall provided with an opening, of an endless elevator without said wall, an automatic discharging device situated adjacent to the said opening by which the load is taken from said elevator, a second endless elevator within said chamber, a receiverfrom which the latter is adapted to take the load, and means for transferring the load from said discharging device through said opening to the receiver.

9. The combination with a storage-chamber having a wall provided with an opening through which the material elevated is adapted to be passed, of an endless elevator having its ascending and its descending legs arranged in a plane substantially parallel with the wall, and means for transferring the load from the elevator situated between the ends of the elevator and arranged to move the load in a direction transverse to the plane in which the elevator moves, a portion of said transferring means extending within the path of parts of the elevator.

10. The combination ofa receiving-elevator provided with swinging carriers having hooks 5, a discharging-elevatorhaving substantially similar carriers 0, and means for transferring the load from said hooks of the receiving-elevator to said hooks of the discharging-elevator.

each of said chain-wheels, a connecting-shaft.

extendin past both elevators and pinions on said shaft engaging the gear-wheels of all of I riers thereon arranged to swing between the said chain-wheels. chains or connections, and the guides 18 for 12. The combination with an elevator havthe carriers arranged to hold them out of their ing endless chains, swinging carriers thereon, normal position and in proper position to re- 15 i 5 and separate chain-wheels at the upper turns ceive a load, substantially as set forth.

of said chains, gear-wheels connected respec- In testimony whereof I affix my signature tively with the chain-wheels, and a connectin presence of two Witnesses.

ing-shaft having a pinion for each of said EDGAR A. WRIGHT.

- gear-wheels. Witnesses: lo 13. The combination, in an elevator, of the PRIMUS PHILIPPI, endless chains or connections, swinging car- 1 WV. R. BAXTER. 

